HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
Merry, against the conduct of the 
French princes, in publickly wear- 
ing the insignia of their orders, 
which Talleyrand describessas in- 
sulting to his government. The 
tame and disgraceful answer which 
ministers make to this childish and 
impertinent complaint is, that ‘ it 
would be more proper if they (the 
French princes and nobles) ab- 
stained from it. But how could 
ministers help it, or prevent it?” 
Was that the language for his ma- 
" jesty’s minister s to hold in reply to 
such aremonstrance? I ask them, 
if ever the chastising hand of pro- 
vidence were to plunge this country 
into the same misfortunes which 
have overwhelmed France, if ever 
our nobles were sent to seek re- 
fuge in a foreign land, how they 
would brook theidea of our nobi- 
lity surrendering the badges of their 
rank, and the insignia of their ho- 
_ nors, because they no longer dared 
to wear them? Yet this is the con- 
duct which ministers think it would 
have been more proper if the French 
nobles had followed.—The next 
demand the French government 
makes, is that the French superior 
clergy and noblesse, who were emi- 
grants in England, should be re- 
moved from the kingdom, to Ca- 
nada! ‘These august, these vener- 
able characters, who, true to their 
religion, and faithful to their so- 
yerelgn, gave up even the means 
of subsistence, and left their 
friends, relatives, and dearest con- 
nexions, rather than remain in the 
land where that sovereign had been 
murdered, and that religion pro- 
phaned; who, encouraged by the 
general voice of England, sought 
‘that refuge here, which almost 
every other country refused them. 
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We are called upon by the au- 
thors of their miseries, who are at 
this moment revelling in their 
spoils, and exulting in their mis- 
fortunes, to remove them from the 
refuge we gave them, and thus to 
violate that hospitality, on the faith 
of which they came. Those gal- 
lant men, who so sacrificing every 
consideration of personal risque, 
made an unavailing, but glorious 
attempt, to restore the throne of 
their kings, and to establish the 
altars of their faith, whose exer- 
tions we animated, and whose arms 
we assisted; who engaged in this 
memorable struggle on the faith 
of British promises, and in the 
confidence of British assistance ; 
we are called upon by the very men 
against whom they fought, and 
against whom we once made 
common cause with them, to ‘ de- 
porter’ to Canada. Let gentlemen 
recollect the meaning attached to 
that word by the present rulers of 
France, let them recollect the hor- 
rors of the former deportation to 
Cayenne, as described by the mi- 
serable survivors of it; let them 
recollect, that to a deportation of 
this kind, the French government 
wished to doom the loyal and per- 
secuted emigrants of France, and 
then let them turn to the answer 
which his majesty’s ministers chose 
to give to this CRUEL, this INFER- 
NAL proposal. ‘His majesty is very 
desirous to obviate any cause of 
complaint or uneasiness with re- 
spect to their persons, and measures 
are in’contemplation, and will be 
taken, for the purpose of removing 
them out of his majesty’s European 
dominions.’ J shut the book in 
disgust, in horror, and in shame.— 
In disgust and in horror at the bar- 
barity 
